Sunday, July 30, 2006

after a long and tedious afternoon of cleaning up my parent's place (cuz my dad is coming back from the states tomorrow night), i decided to partake in my twice yearly ritual of mindless indulgence:

spoils of shopping

the main objective was to buy a new pair of shoes cuz my old ones were getting a bit worn out, so we started off at zara (liat towers) to check out the sale items...but since i recently tore a pair of jeans that i bought only a few months ago...don't ask me how...i came away from the spanish clothing line with only this:

moby-street-wear (front)

moby-street-wear (back)

i liked the logo. hehe. =)

moby-street-wear (logo)

moby-street-wear damage: S$59.90

i heard from jaime's husband, rothman, about this place in pacific plaza that sells pretty decent looking shoes...so i checked it out, and ended up with more than i wanted...although i did manage to get a reasonable discount for buying 2 instead of 1 (20% off each, instead of 10% each).

moby-peds

yeah lah, yeah lah...i know that they're the same design, but i like! you can see the difference better with flash...really!

for good measure, i dropped by topshop @ wisma atria to check out some work clothes...and since office pants are not much different everywhere around, this is that:

moby-office-wear

moby-office-wear damage: S$56.00

total damage: S$386.30sigh.

i bought so much that i was even forced to ask pei hwan to help me take some of the stuff...hehe. other guys have to hold all those girly handbags for their chics, while i get help with my shopping...eat that, suckers! muahaha!

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

whichever family that is staying directly above me on the 24th or 25th floors of my block is damn freaking lucky...the smells that come from their kitchen at mealtimes are so tantilizingly aromatic that i am always getting the urge to find out the origin of the scent, in the hopes of getting a warm, hot home-cooked meal.

the craving for freshly cooked food is so powerful, and yet so unattainable, that i am now going to rush down to ntuc and buy some squid and prawns to make my own spaghetti marinara dinner for tonight.

but i doubt if i can replicate the sensational and alluring scent from what must be the best tasting cuisine ever...

Thursday, July 20, 2006

it kinda makes me think about my life in general...why am i working so hard? to earn more money which evaporates with each vapour of alcohol and each whisp of smoke? or should i be realigning my goals and objectives in life instead...

maybe i really have been stuck in singapore for far too long...more than half my life already...and with each passing day, with each "hmm...what's there to do today?", another 24 hours bites the dust.

don't know why i'm in such a contemplative mood...maybe it's cuz i've cut down on my tigers...haha. but chin up sky, tomorrow is always only one day away. cheers. =)

Monday, July 17, 2006

i'm kinda sad...but also kinda happy for them...at least they had the strength and courage to uproot and leave...i seem to be far too embedded in my work to be helped...sigh...time does make breaking away harder...

it's almost kinda like being in a relationship...but let's not go into that lah hor? a lot of mending hearts and egos around...

one friend said that it should be a joyous time for the two of them...and that they should rejoice and bathe in the shock-of-resignation-afterglow from their boss...but they seem to be more stressed out from the proceedings than anything...what with handing over accounts and blah blah blah...

but frankly ah, if you ask me...i wouldn't really give a damn. if you treat me like shit...then don't expect anything good when i'm finished. full stop.

"finito. good luck with the rest of the crap that you laid on me...goodbye!"

Sunday, July 16, 2006

there're so many different places that i wanna go...things to see, food to eat, cultures to experience...

i'm so glad that pei hwan is an experienced traveller. she was actually abroad for 2 years backpacking in south east asia...seeing the sights, tasting the cuisines, and mixing with the locals...it was a pretty arduous task convincing her (when i was wooing her at least) that i'm a well travelled individual myself, given her credentials, but maybe for once, the predator becomes the prey...hahaha.

i digress...

i went to the singapore science centre the other day, with the intention of watching an imax movie at the omni-theatre...but since they didn't have anything good on, we (pei hwan and i) ended up in the science centre gift shop...which had an impressive range of telescopes on sale. there were some really huge suckers going for a few hundred dollars only (of which i didn't have the strength to fork out for)...but anyway, there were a lot of pictures in the shop of mother earth taken from outer space...that made me think yet again of how big our planet is...and how much of it i still haven't seen...

Thursday, July 13, 2006

1. they want attention2. they want freedom3. they want to be pampered4. they want challenges5. they want independence6. they can't drive7. they want you to act the way they want you to act8. they want you to look the way they want you to look9. they want your room to look the way they want it to look10. you cannot change them...no, god forbid

Monday, July 10, 2006

we all have had instances in our lives when we would wish for a time machine...a contraption which could take us back a few years, a few months, a few days, or even just a few minutes in the past...to undo / redo / erase something that went wrong. i know i would have begged, borrowed and / or killed for such a machine more than a few times in my life...

but on retrospect, i feel that if those things didn't happen to me, if i didn't make those mistakes and learned from them, and if i had made every single decision correctly, i wouldn't be the person that i am today...what doesn't kill you, blah blah blah...it's true.

it's tough accepting defeat, and it's always painful especially with matters of the heart. a male's ego is very fragile, and can be burst with the slightest touch. the important thing is knowing how to get up, dust off the anguish, and start learning the life lessons...and to keep learning...

another world cup ends...another captain retires in tears...another four more years till south africa 2010...sigh.

but don't fret all you fellow liverpool fans...30 more days until the champions league qualifier (8/9 aug)...34 more days until the community shield opener against chelsea (13 aug)...40 more days until the opening premier league match against sheffield united (19 aug)...

i'm looking for a cheap way to get to hong kong...preferably in early or mid august cuz my brother won't be there for that much longer...anyone got good lobangs to share? (btw, please don't bother to reply if you are going to suggest travel means other than by airplane hor)

i've never gone to hong kong before...it's been a place that i've always wanted to visit for some time now...what with the new disneyland, the better service, the excitable yet stressful uncles on buses and all...what's there not to see?!!

i believe that touring other countries and places can only widen my horizon by exposing myself to new cultures and people. without these insights, i think that i'd get more and more engrossed in the mundane routine that has ruled my life for the past 4 years of slavery (aka working life in singapore).

obviously, merely touring a place will not enable me to fully understand everything...it would probably just be a form of escapism...but it will at least give me a another glimpse of the world outside of singapore...

having said that though...hong kong was also a british colony in asia not too long ago...which leads me to wonder whether their people also claim seats in hawker centres with packets of tissue paper...i can't wait to find out...haha.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

i went to the famous "hai kee teochew cha kway teow" stall at the margaret drive hawker centre last night. after waiting in the tremendously long queue for 45 minutes before getting my $2.50 plate of noodles and cockles, i discovered the meaning of much-hyped and over-rated. kinda like england and brazil in this world cup...all the fanfare, but not much substance. =|

hmmm...it's an all-european contest now...so who's your bet on? i'm thinking germany vs. france...but then again, now that my favourite team (holland) is out of the competition already, i don't really care who wins...as long as it's not england...but that was settled last night, thanks to wayne rooney's cock up. haha.

cock up

red rooney

but i do feel bad for beckham though...

becks off

injured, substituted, a forlorn figure...he softly cried by himself on the bench...it's quite lonely when you're at the top huh...

even his beautiful wife cried...

posh tears

though i wonder if the tears are for her husband, her country, or the end of her already-prolonged shopping trip...haha.

oh well...you can always come to singapore and try the hai kee teochew char kway teow...you'll definitely like the cockles.